Early Career Teachers, Classroom Management, and Macbeth: Exploring Psychological Dilemmas Through the Arts

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Abstract

The work of scholarship described in this proposal uses the methodology of connoisseurship to investigate the dilemmas that early-career teachers face as they attempt to master the art of classroom management. Previous research has shown that early-career teachers tend to experience tensions within their own thinking, especially in relation to dilemmas of classroom management. Using connoisseurship, this inquiry will explore these oppositional pairs in thinking through the theoretical lens of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. The aim of this scholarship is to illuminate the psychological dilemmas of classroom management through the arts.

Author

• Aaron Samuel Zimmerman, Texas Tech University